FSE 2012 - 19th annual Fast Software Encryption workshop

Important dates
submission deadline: November 17, 2011
notification to authors: January 23, 2012
Preproceedings version deadline: February 13, 2012
Workshop: March 19-21, 2012
Proceedings version deadline: April 30, 2012
General Information
FSE 2012 is the 19th annual Fast Software Encryption workshop, for the eleventh year sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). FSE 2012 will take place in Washington DC, USA. Original research papers on symmetric cryptology are invited for submission to FSE 2012. The workshop concentrates on fast and secure primitives for symmetric cryptography, including the design and analysis of block ciphers, stream ciphers, encryption schemes, analysis and evaluation tools, hash functions, and message authentication codes (MACs).
Instructions for Authors

Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published in a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings, or has submitted/is planning to submit before the author notification deadline to a journal or other conferences/workshops that have proceedings. Accepted submissions may not appear in any other conference or workshop that has proceedings. IACR reserves the right to share information about submissions with other program committees to detect parallel submissions and the IACR policy on irregular submissions will be strictly enforced. Double submissions with the co-located third SHA-3 conference are allowed, but the papers accepted for FSE 2012 will be presented at FSE 2012 only, in order to avoid double presentations.

The submission must be written in English and be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references. It should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords. The length of the submission should be at most 14 pages excluding bibliography and appendices using single column with at least 11pt size font, reasonably sized margins and in total not more than 20 pages. The introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. Committee members are not required to read appendices; the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

Submissions to FSE 2012 should be submitted electronically in PDF format. A detailed description of the electronic submission procedure is available on FSE 2012 website. The authors of submitted papers guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop if their paper is accepted.